In Biblical times there was a gen­er­al per­cep­tion that noth­ing good could come out of Nazareth. Nazareth was a small town some accounts, say that it had only about 150 res­i­dents.
Little is known of the rea­sons behind the neg­a­tive per­cep­tions of Nazareth. Nevertheless, archae­o­log­i­cal exca­va­tions have con­firmed that the city was only a small agri­cul­tur­al vil­lage dur­ing the Hellenistic and Roman peri­ods.
Jesus spent his boy­hood days in Nazareth, and so that ques­tion became moot. Yeshua/​Jesus was the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of good.

Donald Trump Junior has demon­strat­ed that it is gen­er­al­ly true that no good can come out of some­thing bad unless you are Yeshua how­ev­er. Stupid is real­ly is as stu­pid does.
Donald Trump the present occu­pant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and his wife Melania the genius, has been two of the ear­li­er per­pe­tra­tors of the racist birther lie against then-can­di­date Barack Obama.
But Junior, an apple no less an igno­ra­mus than the tree from which he fell, was also a part of that slim­ing.
Barack Obama is no longer the President, nei­ther is he run­ning for any­thing. So despite the hatred of him which still exist in the bit­ter hearts of this despi­ca­ble fam­i­ly, the ven­om seems now trans­ferrable to any oth­er can­di­date of col­or. Since California Senator Kamala Harris has been get­ting some press after her debate per­for­mance, she is now the new tar­get of this imbe­cil­ic clan.

After Senator Harris’ break­out per­for­mance dur­ing the Democratic debates in Miami, a right-wing hack tweet­ed claim­ing she had no right to rep­re­sent American blacks because her father grew up in Jamaica. Donal Trump Jnr boost­ed the tweet and received a Twitter back­lash which forced him to delete the tweet.
The idea it seems, was to dri­ve a wedge between African-Americans and Senator Harris’s can­di­da­cy.
The gen­er­al idea is that Kamala Harris whose father is Jamaican and her moth­er of Indian ances­try, is not fit nor black enough to rep­re­sent African-Americans.
There are just a cou­ple of prob­lems with that premise, Kamala Harris is not run­ning to be pres­i­dent of [African-America], I don’t even know where that coun­try is?
She is run­ning for the pres­i­den­cy of the United States of America.
Secondly, Kamala Harris’s dad was not a mem­ber of the white planter class in my native Jamaica.
Donald Harris, is a promi­nent eco­nom­ics pro­fes­sor, but he is the off­spring of African peo­ple who were kid­napped and dropped off as slaves, just as oth­ers were dropped off in the United States. 

Trump Junior’s clear and unequiv­o­cal lack of intel­lect has borne out what I have always main­tained, Racism is a degen­er­a­tive dis­ease which comes from igno­rance.
There is no tan­gi­ble rea­son to believe that Donald Trump Junior would have emerged a smarter man than his father, but it seems that Junior has emerged as a kind of dum­bo which must be caus­ing even his own father to ques­tion his abil­i­ties.
Of course, the strat­e­gy to tweet and delete may very well be a strate­gic con­tin­u­a­tion of the mis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign waged in 2016, which got us to where we are today.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, a busi­ness own­er, avid researcher, and blog­ger. 
He is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com.
He also writes occa­sion­al­ly for the web­site Medium​.com.
You may sub­scribe to his blogs free of charge, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel for the lat­est pod­cast all free to you of course.

In response to President’ Carter’s in your face state­ment, that Donald Trump is an ille­git­i­mate President by virtue of Russian inter­fer­ence in the 2016 pres­i­den­tial elec­tions, for­mer Arizona US Senator Jeff Flake had this to say.
“This is an awful thing for one American President to say about anoth­er.”
“We need to stop try­ing to dis­qual­i­fy each oth­er,” Flake wrote. “I could not sup­port President Trump large­ly because of his awful embrace of birtherism. President Carter call­ing President Trump ille­git­i­mate is not right either. We should be bet­ter than this.”

Speaking at the Carter cent in Virginia, for­mer President Carter said the fol­low­ing about the Trump Presidency.
“I think the inter­fer­ence … if ful­ly inves­ti­gat­ed would show that Trump actu­al­ly didn’t win the elec­tion in 2016.” 
“A full inves­ti­ga­tion “would show that Trump didn’t actu­al­ly win the elec­tion in 2016….He was put into office because the Russians inter­fered.” Does that mean he’s an ille­git­i­mate pres­i­dent? “Based on what I said, which I can’t retract.”

Jeff Flake, (the human pret­zel), pre­tend­ed to be dis­tressed with Donald Trump’s inhu­mane poli­cies, before vot­ing to imple­ment them dur­ing his tenure in the US Senate.
Flake is now a fel­low at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
Flake’s Senate career was rem­i­nis­cent of his last name. Inconsistent, flaky and wishy-washy. He left the Senate, hav­ing done him­self no favors by bad-mouthing Trump’s poli­cies, then vot­ing for them in the end.
Jeff Flake made ene­mies on both sides of the polit­i­cal divide by being a wishy-washy fence strad­dling Toadie.

As was to be expect­ed from Jeff Flake, he was tak­en aback by the sever­i­ty of the back­lash after his sil­ly Carter rebuke.
Flake has­tened to say he was not defend­ing Donald trump but was defend­ing the Presidency.
“We need to have respect for the process,” Flake told The Arizona Republic on Saturday. “I have a ton of respect for President Carter. I think he’s ten times the man in terms of being a good per­son than Donald Trump will ever be. But we need to stop try­ing to dis­qual­i­fy each oth­er in elec­tions and use the bal­lot box instead.”
The irony in Jeff Flakes response was vin­tage Jeff Flake weak-kneed strad­dling.
How could Flake argue that he is defend­ing the Presidency if he is unwill­ing to see that the best way to do so is to stand up with patri­ots like President Carter and speak the truth instead of hid­ing behind a veil of lies and pre­ten­tious BS?

In the world’s [“Oldest Democracy”], the can­di­date who received three mil­lion plus more votes than her oppo­nent, end­ed up los­ing that elec­tion.
Because that irra­tional­i­ty is an anom­aly in west­ern democ­ra­cies, it begs a clos­er look.
We should nev­er be dis­tract­ed from the fact that the US has built-in safe­guards, which are intend­ed to ensure the con­tin­u­a­tion of white rule regard­less of the dwin­dling num­ber of whites in soci­ety or the num­ber of whites ver­sus peo­ple of col­or in the coun­try.
North Dakota’s pop­u­la­tion was 760,077 on July 1, 2018. Republican
South Dakota is esti­mat­ed at 858,469. Republican.
Wyoming’s pop­u­la­tion in 2019 is esti­mat­ed at 572,381. Republican.
As of 2019, the esti­mat­ed pop­u­la­tion of Montana is 1.07 mil­lion. Largely Republican.
As of 2019, the pop­u­la­tion of Iowa is 3.17 mil­lion. Republican.
West Virginia’s pop­u­la­tion is esti­mat­ed at 1.79 mil­lion. Generally Republican.
The pop­u­la­tion of Nebraska in 2019 is now 1.94 mil­lion. Republican.
The 2019 esti­mate for Idaho’s pop­u­la­tion is 1.79 mil­lion. Republican.
Oklahoma has an esti­mat­ed pop­u­la­tion in 2019 of 3.95 mil­lion. Republican.

California’s pop­u­la­tion in 2019 is 39.75 mil­lion. DEMOCRAT.
Even though there are a cou­ple of states in the New England region with low pop­u­la­tions, the vast major­i­ty of the rur­al states which are Republican mono­liths all have two Republican Senators the same as California with rough­ly (40,000,000.00) peo­ple or New York anoth­er blue state with rough­ly (20,000,000.00 res­i­dents.
This means that rur­al, most­ly white homogo­nous states with small pop­u­la­tions get a dis­pro­por­tion­ate rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the US Senate, there­by can­cel­ing out the will of states with large diverse pop­u­la­tions which gets the same two US Senators. 

President Carter is a thinker who under­stands that it would be a near impos­si­bil­i­ty that much of a plu­ral­i­ty in the pop­u­lar vote across the coun­try would be nar­rowed down to Minnesota, Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Trump won those states by less than two per­cent­age points accord­ing to the Washington Post.
Pennsylvania and Michigan had not vot­ed for a Republican pres­i­dent since vot­ing for George H.W. Bush in 1988. Wisconsin had not gone Republican since 1984.
How much of a stretch is it to fig­ure out that this was no win, but a clever well-tar­get­ed chang­ing of the votes just enough to toss the Presidency to Trump, with­out cre­at­ing too much of a stink which would raise eye­brows when that win is looked at in a par­al­lel prism with the raw votes.
As I opined at the time Robert Muller was appoint­ed Special Counsel to look at Russian inter­fer­ence into the American elec­tions, the arro­gance of those who tout American supe­ri­or­i­ty on all fronts would pre­vent a thor­ough inves­ti­ga­tion of the facts.
Even if a thor­ough inves­ti­ga­tion was allowed, the full and com­plete fact that a hos­tile for­eign adver­sary had installed a pup­pet in the American White House would nev­er be accept­ed, much less made avail­able to the public. 

One Twitter user shot back at Jeff Flake’s com­ments, “Jeff Flake, more upset at what a for­mer pres­i­dent says than what a cur­rent pres­i­dent does.”
There are far too much hypocrisy and arro­gance in this coun­try for them to admit that Donald Trump is the Manchurian pres­i­dent they had long feared.
He and Vladimir Putin are hav­ing a jol­ly old time laugh­ing and ham­ming it up at how they got away with it Scott free.

free.

• Former President Jimmy Carter called President Donald Trump an ille­git­i­mate pres­i­dent and said he only won his 2016 elec­tion because of state-spon­sored Russian inter­fer­ence to ben­e­fit him.
• Carter made the con­tro­ver­sial com­ments along­side his Vice President Walter Mondaleat a June 28 human rights forum host­ed in Leesburg, Virginia.
• “A full inves­ti­ga­tion would show that Trump did­n’t actu­al­ly win the elec­tion in 2016. He lost the elec­tion, and was put into office because of the Russians inter­fer­ing on his behalf,” Carter said.
• When the mod­er­a­tor fol­lowed up and asked if Carter believed Trump was an ille­git­i­mate pres­i­dent, Carter said, “based on what I just said which I can’t retract, yes.”
• Carter’s com­ments came after Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to laugh off Russia’s elec­tion inter­fer­ence when the two lead­ers met at the G20 sum­mit in Osaka, Japan.

Former President Jimmy Carter called President Donald Trump an ille­git­i­mate pres­i­dent and said he only won his 2016 elec­tion because of state-spon­sored Russian inter­fer­ence to ben­e­fit him.

Carter, who is 94 years old and served as America’s 39^th pres­i­dent from 1977 to 1981, made the con­tro­ver­sial com­ments along­side his Vice President Walter Mondale at a June 28 human rights forum host­ed in Leesburg, Virginia and mod­er­at­ed by pres­i­den­tial schol­ar Jon Meacham.

“There’s no doubt that the Russians did inter­fere in the elec­tion. I think the inter­fer­ence, although it’s not quan­ti­fied, a full inves­ti­ga­tion would show that Trump did­n’t actu­al­ly win the elec­tion in 2016. He lost the elec­tion, and was put into office because of the Russians inter­fer­ing on his behalf,” Carter said.
Read more here:
https://​www​.msn​.com/​e​n​-​u​s​/​n​e​w​s​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​j​i​m​m​y​-​c​a​r​t​e​r​-​s​a​i​d​-​t​h​a​t​-​t​r​u​m​p​-​i​s​-​a​n​-​i​l​l​e​g​i​t​i​m​a​t​e​-​p​r​e​s​i​d​e​n​t​-​b​e​c​a​u​s​e​-​r​u​s​s​i​a​n​-​i​n​t​e​r​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​-​g​o​t​-​h​i​m​-​e​l​e​c​t​e​d​/​a​r​-​A​A​D​z​qC6

In case you are won­der­ing how the Supreme Court under George Bush appointee Chief Justice John Roberts will be viewed in his­to­ry, the long list of 5 – 4 deci­sions along par­ti­san lines, has already defined the way the Right-wing court bear­ing his name will be remem­bered for­ev­er.
Along with Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and the stolen seat giv­en to Neil Gorsuch and the oth­er Trump appointee weepy Brett Kavanaugh, the court’s right-wing jus­tices have made no attempt to be dis­pas­sion­ate or fair in its rul­ings as a con­ser­v­a­tive majority.

The Roberts court has embarked on a steady path of 5 – 4 deci­sions favor­ing Conservative caus­es. It has left pre­cious lit­tle room for those who believe in the court as a last decider of fair­ness, to have con­tin­ued faith in this court.
In the lat­est Ruling on a deci­sion which should have been easy for any coun­ty court as a mat­ter of fair­ness, decen­cy and com­mon sense, the court in typ­i­cal 5 – 4 fash­ion, ruled on Thursday, June 27^th that par­ti­san ger­ry­man­der­ing was a polit­i­cal ques­tion beyond the reach of the fed­er­al court. (under the sig­na­ture of John Roberts)
There are no fair and man­age­able stan­dards for judges to eval­u­ate whether a ger­ry­man­der is con­sti­tu­tion­al, Roberts wrote in his major­i­ty opin­ion.
The deci­sion was in response to cas­es of con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts in North Carolina and Maryland.
According to the HuffingtonPost​.com, the court’s deci­sion ensures state law­mak­ers will have vir­tu­al­ly unlim­it­ed license to choose the vot­ers who elect them. By pack­ing the oppos­ing party’s vot­ers into as few dis­tricts as pos­si­ble or spread­ing them out among many dis­tricts, law­mak­ers can make it next to impos­si­ble for the oth­er par­ty to win a major­i­ty of leg­isla­tive or con­gres­sion­al seats. 

In a 2012 Article titled; The Incredible Polarization and Politicization of the Supreme Court, the Atlantic’s David Paul Kuhn wrote, schol­ars con­sid­er these nar­row deci­sions the most polit­i­cal. Research indi­cates that 5‑to‑4 rul­ings are the most like­ly to be over­turned by lat­er Courts. They car­ry the same legal author­i­ty as more unan­i­mous opin­ions — but not the same moral author­i­ty. In this vein, the one branch of gov­ern­ment designed to be above par­ti­san­ship echoes the rise in hyper­par­ti­san­ship seen through­out Washington.
Justice Elena Kagan, in a dis­sent­ing opin­ion joined by the three oth­er lib­er­al-lean­ing jus­tices, wrote about the cor­ro­sive effect ger­ry­man­der­ing has on American democ­ra­cy. New tech­nol­o­gy, she said, would only make the prac­tice more extreme. “If left unchecked, ger­ry­man­ders like the ones here may irrepara­bly dam­age our sys­tem of gov­ern­ment,” she wrote. “Of all times to aban­don the Court’s duty to declare the law, this was not the one. 

From Citizens United which states that Corporation are peo­ple to evis­cer­at­ing the vot­ing rights act on the flim­sy excuse it is no longer need­ed, the Roberts court has demon­strat­ed that the faith cer­tain Americans had in the court to be dis­pas­sion­ate is mis­placed.
What we are wit­ness­ing is a com­plete makeover of America as we know it.
And not in a good way.
That will be the lega­cy of the Roberts court.

The American Government con­tin­ue to talk down to small­er less pow­er­ful nations, through its var­i­ous arms of gov­ern­ment as well as direct­ly from the horse’s mouth at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
At the same time coun­tries like Iran, North Korea, and oth­ers insist that respect is a two-way street.
That is essen­tial­ly true, respect is earned, it has noth­ing to do with one’s size, pow­er, or wealth, and it cer­tain­ly is not giv­en because a pow­er­ful coun­try engages in threats, brava­do, intim­i­da­tion or bellicosity.

In the process of speak­ing down and act­ing as a strict par­ent to way­ward kids, the US has devel­oped its own grad­ing and rat­ing sys­tem through which it chas­tis­es admon­ish­es and pun­ish­es less pow­er­ful nations for what it deems to be a lack of adher­ence to the ortho­doxy of the rules it cre­at­ed.
Usually, those infrac­tions are inju­ri­ous to no oth­er coun­try except the United States. In many cas­es, the injury is mere­ly a mat­ter of per­cep­tion.
I find this lord­ing over oth­er nations curi­ous, as the US allows no one to tell it what to do. Which brings us to the ques­tion of human traf­fick­ing and more sub­stan­tial­ly the ques­tion of human rights.
In a recent arti­cle pub­lished in the Jamaica Gleaner, the US Government chid­ed Jamaica for not being aggres­sive enough in pros­e­cut­ing offend­ers and pro­tect­ing vic­tims.
Read arti­cle here; http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​l​e​a​d​-​s​t​o​r​i​e​s​/​2​0​1​9​0​6​2​5​/​n​o​t​-​t​o​u​g​h​-​e​n​o​u​g​h​-​u​s​-​r​a​p​s​-​j​a​m​a​i​c​a​-​l​i​m​p​-​a​c​t​i​o​n​-​h​u​m​a​n​-​t​r​a​f​f​i​c​k​ing .
My ques­tion for Jamaica is this, why not cre­ate and main­tain a grad­ing and rat­ing sys­tem which grades America’s efforts in stop­ping the flow of guns into Jamaica?
Since as far back as the ear­ly ’80s, Jamaica has gone over and beyond to erad­i­cate mar­i­jua­na and pre­vent it from get­ting into the United States.
As a young police offi­cer, this writer has done more than most cops to wage war on a weed that I nev­er smoked or had any­thing to do with, all because the Americans want­ed us to do so.
While we were active­ly erad­i­cat­ing mar­i­jua­na our poor coun­try was pay­ing exor­bi­tant (fines/​extortionist fees to the Americans) when Ganga was found on the nation­al air­line, the then [Air Jamaica].
In the same vein, thou­sands of Jamaicans have been incar­cer­at­ed and deport­ed, some inno­cent­ly, because of America’s hatred for mar­i­jua­na. America’s police depart­ments did not care who they hauled into their mar­i­jua­na drag­nets, inno­cent or guilty. If one was/​is black or brown it did/​does not mat­ter.
All this was going on while American states were active­ly engaged in the growth and sale of far more mar­i­jua­na than tiny Jamaica could ever hope to pro­duce.
Tens of thou­sands of Jamaican lives have been ruined while mar­i­jua­na is now being decrim­i­nal­ized across America.

America’s ten­den­cy to dic­tate to oth­ers on what they ought to do is cer­tain­ly not lost on this writer. Despite this ten­den­cy, America’s police depart­ments com­bined, kills thou­sands of peo­ple each year. Not just armed sus­pects, but unarmed peo­ple with whom they come in con­tact, who have com­mit­ted no crimes but who may have ques­tioned their assault on their per­sons.
These inno­cent vic­tims are gen­er­al­ly African-American and oth­er peo­ple of col­or.
Police body and dash­cam videos are always avail­able to slime poten­tial accused sus­pects but are with­held (“pend­ing the com­ple­tion of the inves­ti­ga­tions”), when racist and cor­rupt cops are accused of crimes against inno­cent cit­i­zens.
And so while we are on the ques­tion of peo­ple’s rights I will take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to reit­er­ate some­thing I stat­ed to a friend just today.
We are expe­ri­enc­ing a stub­born rise in the Islands vio­lent crime rate. I believe the lead­ers of our coun­try have squan­dered oppor­tu­ni­ty after oppor­tu­ni­ty to right the ship.
Nevertheless, because of their own crim­i­nal expo­sure, they have used smoke and mir­rors to cre­ate the impres­sion that mean­ing­ful work is being done to reme­di­ate the exis­ten­tial issue of vio­lent crime on the Island.
However, in real­i­ty, police and oth­er sta­tis­ti­cal data shows that the tra­jec­to­ry of vio­lent crimes and the bru­tal­i­ty and brazen­ness with which they are being car­ried out has been on a steady north­ward trajectory.

(1) I am opposed to (INDECOM), Terrence Williams and Hamish Campbell’s ZEALOTRY, PERSONAL AGENDAS AND EGOS. I am not opposed to police over­sight. Police can­not be left to police them­selves.
The JCF has the most over­sight of any police agency any­where, yet police cor­rup­tion is on the rise. It fol­lows, there­fore, that over­sight is not the issue, the approach is wrong. Just as the wrong-head­ed ZOSO’s and States of Emergencies can­not stop mur­ders, nei­ther can the pro­lif­er­a­tion of pres­sure groups on the JCF work to low­er crime.
I am opposed to INDECOM because it was born out of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), an anti-police agi­ta­tor, and crim­i­nal enhance­ment group.
(2) If the Government had fol­lowed our sug­ges­tion in 2010 when they cre­at­ed INDECOM. If they had put the M$355 per year it throws down the dark hole known as INDECOM, into the JCF, that B$3.2 Billion dol­lars would have brought the JCF to first world stan­dard.
It would have root­ed out cor­rup­tion, drove down crime through more effec­tive inves­ti­ga­tions and appre­hen­sion of crim­i­nal sus­pects.
(3) Additionally, had the Government decid­ed­ly shown the crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty the door and backed the JCF leg­isla­tive­ly and through com­pen­sato­ry means, I would be writ­ing from Jamaica about the mas­sive infu­sion of real invest­ments which have flood­ed into our country. 

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, a busi­ness own­er, avid researcher, and blog­ger.
He is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. You may sub­scribe to his blogs free of charge, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel for the lat­est pod­cast all free to you of course.

TALK OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IS NOT THE SAME AS DEMANDING CHANGE IN POLICING PRACTICES

In 2016 then FBI Director James Comey told a con­fer­ence of police chiefs, of white suprema­cist groups infil­trat­ing local and state law enforce­ment, indi­cat­ing it was a sig­nif­i­cant threat to nation­al secu­ri­ty.
Additionally, [PBS​.ORG] report­ed that as far back as 2006 in a bul­letin the FBI detailed the threat of white nation­al­ists and skin­heads infil­trat­ing police in order to dis­rupt inves­ti­ga­tions against fel­low mem­bers and recruit oth­er suprema­cists. The bul­letin was released dur­ing a peri­od of scan­dal for many law enforce­ment agen­cies through­out the coun­try, includ­ing a neo-Nazi gang formed by mem­bers of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who harassed black and Latino com­mu­ni­ties. Similar inves­ti­ga­tions revealed offi­cers and entire agen­cies with hate group ties in Illinois, Ohio, and Texas.
(See link here); https://​www​.pbs​.org/​n​e​w​s​h​o​u​r​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​/​f​b​i​-​w​h​i​t​e​-​s​u​p​r​e​m​a​c​i​s​t​s​-​i​n​-​l​a​w​-​e​n​f​o​r​c​e​m​ent

To date, we know of no real mea­sure which has been imple­ment­ed to deal deci­sive­ly with this scourge. This phe­nom­e­non is not new because America’s police depart­ments have always been pop­u­lat­ed and plagued with racist cops. That is not to say that all cops are racists, far from it, but racist makes bad cops. When good cops remain silent or sup­port the ille­gal actions of bad cops they can no longer claim to be good cops, after they have vio­lat­ed their oaths to uphold the laws faith­ful­ly, and with­out favor.
At the same time, it is instruc­tive to remem­ber that it has been just around two decades or that we start­ed wit­ness­ing the numer­ous killings by police and the out­right in-your-face abuse and mur­der of unarmed Black and Brown peo­ple. These warn­ings by the FBI and the trou­bling occur­rences are not unrelated. 

In a Facebook post recent­ly, I opined that there are 23 or 24 can­di­dates run­ning for the Democrat nom­i­na­tion to replace the impos­tor in the white house. No one expects the present occu­pant or any­one in his régime to rec­og­nize the threat these ter­ror­ists oper­at­ing under the col­or of law pos­es, not just to peo­ple of col­or but ulti­mate­ly all peo­ple.
In fact, he has encour­aged police to use more vio­lence when mak­ing arrests.
However, the Democrats run­ning to replace Trump must know that there are close to forty mil­lion Black peo­ple in this coun­try which forms the basis for the exis­tence of the present Democrat par­ty.
Yet not a sin­gle one of those twen­ty-odd can­di­dates includ­ing the African-Americans have broached the sub­ject of white suprema­cists and skin­heads in America’s police depart­ments and the dan­ger they pose.
Even as they remain mute Philidelphia’s police depart­ment was forced to pull 72 offi­cers in one fell swoop from the streets because of their racist rants on social media.
Yet as far as we know not a sin­gle leg­isla­tive body has tak­en up this issue or has lift­ed a fin­ger to purge these dan­ger­ous mem­bers of the white suprema­cist belief before they do more dam­age than they have already done.
The dam­age they have done far exceeds the killings and the untold inci­dences of bla­tant unpro­voked attacks and assaults on the per­sons of peo­ple of col­or. They expo­nen­tial­ly and for­ev­er dam­age the con­cept of polic­ing as we knew it, and under­mines the very con­cept of the rule of law.

A Florida may­oral candidate’s racist tirade went viral after he told a group of activists to “go back to Africa” dur­ing a may­oral forum in2017.
According to local report­ing, Long-shot St. Petersburg may­oral can­di­date Paul Congemi made the com­ments while address­ing rival Jesse Nevel, a white sup­port­er of the social­ist Uhuru Movement, which seeks slav­ery repa­ra­tions for African-Americans.
“Mr. Nevel, you and your peo­ple, you talk about repa­ra­tions,” Congemi said, accord­ing to video of the out­burst. “The repa­ra­tions that you talk about, Mr. Nevel, your peo­ple already got your repa­ra­tions. Your repa­ra­tions came in the form of a man named Barack Obama.”

This dis­gust­ing piece of germ-infest­ed fecal mat­ter epit­o­mizes the fact that racism is a degen­er­a­cy of the mind. A sick and endem­ic lev­el of low self-esteem which caus­es the vic­tim to feel good about him­self only by debas­ing oth­ers.
It is a dis­ease which attacks the intel­lect, or should I say it is a dis­ease which finds fer­tile ground in non­in­tel­lec­tu­al brain-space. That space is usu­al­ly found in Caucasians, the last race to emerge into the light of civ­i­liza­tion.
Someone ought to give this imbe­cile a few class­es in real his­to­ry, not the (his-sto­ry )they have con­coct­ed and per­pet­u­at­ed over the last sev­er­al hun­dred years. One which once again is in and of itself a clear sign of their low self-esteem and lack of ele­vat­ed intel­lec­tu­al matu­ri­ty.
Lies, false state­ments, mis­in­for­ma­tion all intend­ed to feel good about them­selves, at the expense of oth­ers.
Their ascen­dan­cy into the light of civ­i­liza­tion has been the bane of human­i­ty. Their con­tri­bu­tion has been death, theft, mur­der, and war across the globe. They have tak­en sim­ple cre­ations like gun­pow­der cre­at­ed by the Chinese, and weaponized it into a weapon of mass destruc­tion.
They are the only ones to have used an atom bomb to kill mil­lions of brown peo­ple despite the fact that both the first and sec­ond world wars were start­ed by them, Caucasian Germans. 

Should I go on, or has this inbred been edu­cat­ed enough?
Oh, by the way when they came here our ances­tors were long here, three hun­dred years before they arrived.
We had trav­eled to India, Australia, and places they nev­er dreamed exist­ed. They thought the Earth was flat, these imbe­ciles believed they would fall off the edge of the earth if they ven­tured too far away from their European caves.
[Christopher Come-Rob-us] wrote about it in his jour­nal. He thought when he arrived in the Islands he had land­ed in India. The fool was lost, hence his nam­ing it the [west indies].
Nevertheless, their crim­i­nal intent was imme­di­ate­ly evi­dent, they decid­ed­ly laid claim to places they arrived at, where they were greet­ed and wel­comed with kind­ness.
Unfortunately, the hos­pi­tal­i­ty and gen­eros­i­ty of brown and Black peo­ple would be repaid with bar­barism, inhu­man­i­ty, decep­tion, and sav­agery. From the Caribbean Islands to the tip of South America all the way to the shores of Africa
the ances­tors of sav­ages like the one above, demon­strat­ed that they can­not be tamed and should nev­er be trust­ed.
They have hon­ored no hand of friend­ship, respect­ed no out­stretched hand of kind­ness. They have hon­ored no treaty or agree­ment to which they have attacked their John Hancock. 

There needs to be an edu­ca­tion cam­paign for these inbred low IQ for­mer cave dwellers. But before that hap­pens we as a peo­ple must first know who the hell we are. 

Have you ever stopped to think about the crass hypocrisy of those ser­pents who decry the police for what they call ‘extra-judi­cial killings”? While they sur­rep­ti­tious­ly remain death­ly silent about the “myr­i­ad killings in our coun­try”.
Not that we can allow our police to kill whomev­er they want, that is total­ly unac­cept­able, but our police should nev­er fear get­ting inves­ti­gat­ed and impris­oned for doing their job.
We expect and ask our police to go out and enforce our laws so that we can feel safe and secure in our homes and in pub­lic spaces. The truth of the mat­ter is that the mechan­ics of that are not always pret­ty or palat­able to digest, sim­ply put it is not pret­ty to watch some­times.
As a young CIB offi­cer, I went to Maddens funer­al home at the request of my Sub-offi­cer in charge of Crime, Detective Sergeant Wallace to observe a post-mortem exam­i­na­tion. I had done this sev­er­al times before as a young inves­ti­ga­tor.
This time the vic­tim was a young man who was stabbed in the neck area and had died. The killing hap­pened in the White Hall Avenue area of Kingston 8. The vic­tim had not bled much, so there was an expec­ta­tion that when his corpse was cut open there would be a sig­nif­i­cant amount of blood inside.
Even armed with that expec­ta­tion, I was total­ly unpre­pared for the ghast­ly sight of the semi-con­gealed blood which gushed out of that young man’s corpse when the porters opened it up.
A wave of nau­sea washed over me instant­ly and I dashed out of the build­ing and vom­it­ed up every­thing that was inside me.

Dealing with the dirt and grime of law-enforce­ment can be grue­some and unsa­vory, we send sol­diers to war and we expect them to win. In times past, los­ing meant being tak­en into slav­ery or killed, so every­thing rode on win­ning.
Corrections offi­cers have to be tough as nails, because it is their job to deal with indi­vid­u­als we do not want to be roam­ing around in our com­mu­ni­ties.
It is that same mind­set which must be attached to the process of law enforce­ment. Unfortunately for us, we remain stuck in the non­sen­si­cal belief that a per­son who has some med­ical train­ing is capa­ble of fly­ing air­planes. We believe that col­lege pro­fes­sors who are politi­cians will make great min­is­ters of finance. In oth­er words, hav­ing an under­grad­u­ate degree or even a grad­u­ate degree or two auto­mat­i­cal­ly qual­i­fies the degree hold­er to do any and every­thing.
That is the rea­son that Peter Bunting a Banker was made National Security Minister. The earthy and unpre­dictable Robert Montaque an agron­o­mist, was also giv­en the same job, and today we have a med­ical doc­tor in that office.
Using that same log­ic I sug­gest that when Chang is done at National secu­ri­ty he be giv­en the job to fly air­planes.
It is that stu­pid and regres­sive think­ing which has got­ten us into this mess, but most of all it is our propen­si­ty for talk­ing shit, when we have no idea what we are talk­ing about.

Sure, we have had bad police shoot­ings in our coun­try, as have every oth­er coun­try in which there is pover­ty, drugs, lack of oppor­tu­ni­ties and lots of guns and ammu­ni­tion. That is not to say we are okay with them, but we under­stand that they occur.
What is been done with the data on police-relat­ed shoot­ings is a duplic­i­tous con­fla­tion of the num­bers in order to advance a cer­tain point of view, to shape pol­i­cy and to empow­er and legit­imize out­siders who would inter­fere in our coun­try’s affairs. It is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that they do not put chains or restraints on their law enforce­ment offi­cials and they damn sure do not tol­er­ate vio­lence in their own soci­eties.
By virtue of them con­flat­ing every police-relat­ed shoot­ing into a bad shoot­ing, every police-relat­ed killing became an “extra-judi­cial killing.“
Remember my ini­tial point about peo­ple trained in one dis­ci­pline being viewed as know it all? Well then, you have Carolyn Gomez a baby doc­tor, Susan Goffe [a know-noth­ing loud­mouth], Horace Levy anoth­er loud­mouth who argued crim­i­nal gangs, were [corner-crews]sic, in order to dis­cred­it the police’s ver­sion of events.
Now, these tools could have cried in their soup all they want­ed with­out con­se­quence, if there was strong lead­er­ship in Jamaica House. But we did not, we had Bruce Golding a weak pow­er hun­gry tool who ran away from the labor par­ty to form the National Democratic Movement only to fail and run back to the Labor par­ty and Edward Seaga with his tail between his legs.
Yes, that same Bruce Golding who refused to extra­dite Christopher [Duddus] Coke to face jus­tice in the United States for his crimes.
Rather than look at the data and stand up for the police depart­ment which had been dec­i­mat­ed by the weak and feck­less fail­ure Percival Patterson, Golding gave over the coun­try to Carolyn Gomez and Jamaicans for Justice.

Rather than com­mence a pro­gram of repair­ing the ram­shackle police sta­tions, pro­vid­ing com­put­ers to the police so that crit­i­cal data can be uploaded in the fight against the Island’s equipped crim­i­nals , and rather than pay­ing the police bet­ter and pro­vid­ing them with more of the tools they need­ed, includ­ing leg­isla­tive tools, Bruce Golding was too busy defend­ing Duddus Coke.
Bruce Golding admit­ted to hir­ing Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lob­by Washington for a favor­able out­come in the con­tentious ‘Dudus’ extra­di­tion dra­ma, accord­ing to the Observer.
Golding had pre­vi­ous­ly lied to the nation’s par­lia­ment in 2010 when ques­tioned by the Opposition’s Peter Phillips about the inci­dent.
In the end, Bruce Golding was forced to fess up to hir­ing the law firm, but even then he man­aged to couch his das­tard­ly actions by stat­ing that the pay­ment came from the JLP rather than the Government.
So for Bruce Golding, it was okay for the Jamaica Labor Party to pay a for­eign law firm to lob­by for a favor­able out­come for a gun run­ning drug lord, while the police had no tools to do their jobs.

Said Bruce Golding.….

“I SANCTIONED THE INITIATIVE, KNOWING THAT SUCH INTERVENTIONS HAVE IN THE PAST PROVEN TO BE OF CONSIDERABLE VALUE IN DEALING WITH ISSUES INVOLVING THE GOVERNMENTS OF BOTH COUNTRIES. I MADE IT CLEAR, HOWEVER, THAT THIS WAS AN INITIATIVE TO BE UNDERTAKEN BY THE PARTY, NOT BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT,” GOLDING SAID YESTERDAY.
“A PAYMENT OF US$49,892.62 WAS MADE TO MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS ON SEPTEMBER 18TH 2009. THESE FUNDS WERE SOURCED FROM FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PARTY. RUMORS AND SPECULATION CARRIED IN THE MEDIA THAT THESE FUNDS WERE PROVIDED BY CHRISTOPHER COKE ARE COMPLETELY FALSE AS THE PARTY IS FULLY AWARE OF THE SOURCE OF THESE FUNDS,” HE ADDED.
PRIME MINISTER GOLDING FURTHER INSISTED THAT THERE WAS “ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ILLEGALLY OR SURREPTITIOUS” ABOUT WHAT HAD BEEN DONE, ARGUING THAT THE ENGAGEMENT OF LOBBYISTS TO ACT ON BEHALF OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, POLITICAL PARTIES OR CORPORATIONS IS A WELL-KNOWN PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNED BY LAW. SOURCE: CARIBBEAN 360

Today, Bruce Golding’s cre­ation, INDECOM , has been proven a dis­mal fail­ure. The agency lies and influ­ences man­u­fac­tured wit­ness­es to give false affi­davits and to lie under oath in order to con­vict police offi­cers for crimes they did not com­mit, all to pad arrest and con­vic­tion num­bers. Those num­bers are not arrests of crim­i­nals, they are the false arrest of police offi­cers who go out to pro­tect the coun­try for the most part.
INDECOM has not earned it keeps, but it has sure­ly result­ed in an increase in vio­lent crimes as the Island’s mur­der­ers are no longer afraid of the police com­ing after them. Yet in 2018 the Jamaican tax­pay­ers coughed up in excess of $353.35 mil­lion Jamaican dol­lars to fund that mon­ey suck­ing dark hole..
The rest of the fund­ing comes from even dark­er cor­ners of the International com­mu­ni­ty, with inter­ests which do not line up with a pros­per­ous Jamaica.
As one of my friends wrote in response to one of our arti­cles recent­ly, well why not let him tell it?

Until the police are giv­en a state man­date to fight and push back crime we are beat­ing a dead horse here. A coun­try with 2.8million peo­ple should nev­er be so crime-prone with all the cul­tur­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal ameni­ties avail­able for just about every­body. With so much over­sight groups cre­at­ed to over­see such a small police force in fight­ing crime against some of the most vicious crim­i­nals on the plan­et is egregious,the mil­lions of dol­lars allot­ted to finance unessen­tial agen­cies like Indecom is a total waste of gov­ern­ment funds, instead such monies would be wis­er spent on health care, edu­ca­tion and equip­ping the secu­ri­ty forces bet­ter to deal with crime and vio­lence. It has been cost­ing the health care sys­tem in Jamaica an astro­nom­i­cal amount of mon­ey annu­al­ly just to deal with every­day trau­ma cas­es at hos­pi­tals across the coun­try just to treat peo­ple with gun­shot wounds derived from crim­i­nal shoot­ings which clear­ly under­scores my plea to cut fund­ing for Indecom dras­ti­cal­ly and real­lo­cate the mon­ey to the hos­pi­tals around the coun­try. The amount of wan­ton killings and shoot­ing of inno­cent Jamaicans far out­num­bers the num­ber of ques­tion­able shoot­ings alleged to have done by our secu­ri­ty forces,the time is now to repeal or aban­don the Indecom act and release the shack­les from our men and women in uni­form to go out and face the killing machine which is the crime mon­ster. Hamish Campbell needs to be sent pack­ing back to England where he belongs and to the coun­try which start­ed our social woes in the first place. As for big mouth Williams,he needs to go and set up shop for a law prac­tice which he went to school for and get paid from the crim­i­nals and gun­men which he is so obsessed with for him to defend them in courts of law in the coun­try and stop free­load­ing off a sys­tem which is strug­gling to finance it’s secu­ri­ty forces effi­cient­ly to fight crime in a crime-rid­den bas­tion in the Caribbean called Jamaica . (LS)

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police cor­po­ral, busi­ness own­er, avid researcher, and blog­ger. He is also a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. You may sub­scribe to his blogs free of charge.